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Mount Cooper is a six thousand seven hundred eighty-foot summit in the Fairweather Range of the Saint Elias Mountains in southeast Alaska, within Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve at the entrance to Johns Hopkins Inlet. Though not especially high by Alaska standards, it is a prominent landmark because it rises from tidewater in less than two miles. The peak was named for plant ecologist William Skinner Cooper, whose Glacier Bay research examined vegetation and glacial change and whose leadership helped advance the creation of Glacier Bay National Monument. Its slopes hold small hanging glaciers, and nearby larger glaciers drain into Johns Hopkins Inlet.
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